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Michael Gallagher (academic)
Michael Gallagher (born 1951) is a political scientists, political scientist. He is professor of comparative politics and head of the Department of Political Science at the Trinity College Dublin. Education Trained as a computer scientist, Gallagher combines his understanding of statistical analysis with his interests in politics. He holds a B.A. from Lancaster University, Lancaster, two M.Sc. degrees, one from University of Essex, Essex and one from University of Strathclyde, Strathclyde. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Strathclyde. Career Gallagher created the Gallagher index, a least squares index of proportional representation that measures an electoral system’s disproportionality between votes received and seats allotted in a legislature. His research interests include Politics of the Republic of Ireland, Irish politics, Comparative politics, comparative political institutions, and political parties. Gallagher is the author, co-author or editor of eighteen book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Scientists
The following is a list of notable political scientists. Political science is the scientific study of politics, a social science dealing with systems of governance and power. A * Robert Abelson – Yale University psychologist and political scientist with special interests in statistics and logic * Henry J. Abraham – American scholar on the judiciary and constitutional law and James Hart Professor of Government Emeritus at the University of Virginia * Alan Abramowitz – expert in American politics, political parties, ideological realignment, elections, and voting behavior; professor at Emory University * Paul R. Abramson (political scientist), Paul R. Abramson – American political scientist known for his research and writing on American, European, and Israeli elections and professor of political science at Michigan State University *As'ad AbuKhalil – Lebanese-American professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus. *Ibrahim Abu-Lughod – Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Mair
Peter Mair (3 March 1951 – 15 August 2011) was an Irish political scientist. He was a professor of comparative politics at the European University Institute in Florence. Career Peter Mair was born in Rosses Point, County Sligo, Ireland, and studied history and politics at University College Dublin. He continued to work as assistant professor at the University of Limerick, Strathclyde, Manchester and the European University Institute in Florence during the 1980s. In 1987 at Leiden University he gained a doctorate, which as ''The changing Irish party system'' became a standard work on the Irish party system. In 1990, he co-authored the book ''Identity, Competition and Electoral Availability'' with Stefano Bartolini. It was awarded the ISSC/Unesco Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research. He continued to work at Leiden University becoming professor of comparative politics in 1994 when he held an inaugural address entitled "Party democracies and their di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alumni Of The University Of Essex
The following is a list of notable University of Essex people (in chronological or alphabetical order). Chancellors * Rab Butler (1966–1982) * Patrick Nairne, Sir Patrick Nairne (1982–1997) * Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan (1997–2002) * Andrew Phillips, Baron Phillips of Sudbury (2003–2014) * Shami Chakrabarti, Shami Chakrabarti, Baroness Chakrabarti (2014–2017) * John Bercow (2017–2021) * Sarah Perry (2023–) Notable faculty Vice-Chancellors * Sir Albert Sloman (1963–1987) * Sir Martin Harris (academic), Martin Harris (1987–1993) * Ron J. Johnston (1993–1995) * Sir Ivor Crewe (1995–2007) * Colin Riordan (2007–2012) * Anthony Forster (academic), Anthony Forster (2012–2024) Economics * George Christopher Archibald - Professor (1964–1971) * Anthony Barnes Atkinson - Professor of Economics (1971 to 1976) * Rex Bergstrom - Professor of Economics (1970–1992) * Graciela Chichilnisky - Chair in Economics (1980 to 1981) * Sanjeev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alumni Of Lancaster University
Alumni (: alumnus () or alumna ()) are former students or graduates of a school, college, or university. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women, and alums (: alum) or alumns (: alumn) as gender-neutral alternatives. The word comes from Latin, meaning nurslings, pupils or foster children, derived from "to nourish". The term is not synonymous with "graduates": people can be alumni without graduating, e.g. Burt Reynolds was an alumnus of Florida State University but did not graduate. The term is sometimes used to refer to former employees, former members of an organization, former contributors, or former inmates. Etymology The Latin noun means "foster son" or "pupil". It is derived from the Latin verb "to nourish". Separate, but from the same root, is the adjective "nourishing", found in the phrase '' alma mater'', a title for a person's home university. Usage in Roman law In Latin, is a legal term (Roman law) to describe a child placed in foster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academics Of Trinity College Dublin , a person who is a researcher or has expertise in an academic discipline
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Academic means of or related to an academy, an institution learning. Academic or academics may also refer to: * Academic staff, or faculty, teachers or research staff * school of philosophers associated with the Platonic Academy in ancient Greece * The Academic, Irish indie rock band * "Academic", song by New Order from the 2015 album ''Music Complete'' Other uses *Academia (other) *Academy (other) *Faculty (other) *Scholar A scholar is a person who is a researcher or has expertise in an academic discipline. A scholar can also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher, or researcher at a university. An academic usually holds an advanced degree or a termina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1951 Births
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 11 – In the U.S., a top secret report is delivered to U.S. President Truman by his National Security Resources Board, urging Truman to expand the Korean War by launching "a global offensive against communism" with sustained bombing of Red China and diplomatic moves to establish "moral justification" for a U.S. nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. The report will not not be declassified until 1978. * January 15 – In a criminal court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Political Studies
''Irish Political Studies'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal and the official journal of the Political Studies Association of Ireland covering research on Irish politics including politics of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland and politics concerning relations with the United Kingdom and the European Union. The editors-in-chief are Thomas Hennessey (Canterbury) and R. Kenneth Carty (UBC). The journal was established in 1986 and is published by Routledge. ''Irish Political Studies'' sponsors a conference paper prize at the annual conference of the Political Studies Association of Ireland each year. Previous winners include: Sean McGraw (Notre Dame), Jane Suiter (DCU), and Emmanuelle Schon-Quinlivan (UCC). Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2015 impact factor The im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party Politics
''Party Politics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of political science. The journal's editor is Paul Webb of the University of Sussex, UK. It has been in publication since 1995 and is currently published by SAGE Publications. Scope ''Party Politics'' provides a written forum for the analysis of political parties, including their historical development, structure, policy programmes, ideology, electoral and campaign strategies as well as their role within the various national and international political systems of which they are a part. It is a bi-monthly, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of political science. Abstracting and indexing ''Part Politics'' is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2017 impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a type o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Representation (journal)
''Representation'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering representative democracy. The editors-in-chief are Simona Guerra (University of Surrey) and Javier Sajuria (Queen Mary University of London). The journal was established in 1960 and is published by Routledge on behalf of the McDougall Trust. The Representation and Electoral Systems specialist section of the American Political Science Association has adopted this journal and provides it for free to its membership. Abstracting and indexing According to the publisher, the journal is abstracted and indexed in major databases such as Scopus and the Web of Science. As of 2023, Representation has an impact factor of 1.70. The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) assigns it an SJR indicator of 0.633 and an h-index of 29. Scope The journal publishes research on electoral systems, political representation, democratic theory, and other issues related to representative democracy Democracy (from , ''dēmos'' 'people' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Journal Of Political Research
The ''European Journal of Political Research'' (EJPR) is a major journal of European political science sponsored by the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). It is one of the most highly respected journals in the discipline, and the first journal of the ECPR. The EJPR specialises in articles articulating theoretical and comparative perspectives in political science, covering quantitative and qualitative approaches. All articles are subject to anonymised peer review. The Journal is currently edited by Alessandro Nai (University of Amsterdam) (Editor-in-Chief), Isabelle Borucki (Philipps-University Marburg), Nicole Curato (University of Birmingham), Caterina Froio (Sciences Po), Emilie van Haute (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Airo Hino (Waseda University), and Markus Wagner (University of Vienna). Ranking According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 2.525, ranking it 9th out of 163 journals in the category "Political Scien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Studies
''Electoral Studies'' is an international bi-monthly peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of elections and voting. It was first established in 1982 by David Butler ( Nuffield College, Oxford) and Bo Särlvik (University of Essex) and is widely recognised as a major journal in the field of political science. It is housed at Royal Holloway, University of London and is published by Elsevier (formerly Butterworths and Butterworth-Heinemann). The current editors-in-chief as of January 2018 are Oliver Heath (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Kaat Smets (Royal Holloway, University of London) and the former long-standing editors-in-chief were Harold Clarke ( University of Texas at Dallas) and Geoffrey Evans ( Nuffield College, Oxford). According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.070, ranking it 88th out of 182 journals in the category "Political Science". According to Google Scholar Metrics, the journal has an h-index ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
